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by pkd 10y ago
Didn't they open source [sic] all their patents? [1] I'd call that being pretty open. [1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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by pkd 10y ago
What test suites generally show as coverage is called statement coverage. This only means that all the statements have been executed at least once by the test suite. There are other types of coverages. Like branch coverage, which is more li
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by pkd 10y ago
That's not necessarily true. Many games show the version as 12.04 because the original Steam OS is based on it.
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by pkd 10y ago
> Wealth also correlates with intelligence Can you cite a source for this? I can see how it might follow from the assumption that intelligent people are more likely to succeed in their careers but keeping the GP in context, it should als
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by pkd 10y ago
This is a hard problem to solve because a lot of early access games are better than finished games like Rimworld, for example. To their credit Valve does show a pretty prominent "Early Access" message at the top so I dunno what th
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by pkd 10y ago
Author seems to have some deep lying trouble with India/Hinduism. More on the point, I think this article ignores a lot of things very conveniently to make the point that we should not listen to Jason Fried because "Basecamp is a
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by pkd 10y ago
This was very helpful, thanks! I mostly concur with you on the summary and I am definitely not going to be spending on a consumer class machine.
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by pkd 10y ago
I've also been looking at this. I understand that the Latitude series is more upgradable and has a better port selection and a better keyboard than the XPS line but it comes with compromise on battery life and build quality. How's
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by pkd 10y ago
Re: older ThinkPad, I have a T420 which is not in a very good shape physically. The keyboard clatters a bit because the palm rest has deformed. Apart from that it works quite fine and it has the older 7 row keyboard that I love.
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Ask HN: What's the best laptop for a programmer that isn't a MacBook Pro?
35 points by pkd 10y ago|48 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
Glen (gmurphy) is Director of UX at Google.
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by pkd 10y ago
I am not acquainted with the Chinese system, but here in India, you have to personally go to the designated test centers and take the test. At the center there is some Airport level frisking before you get to see your computer and you need
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by pkd 10y ago
Toefl is a surprisingly easy test to pass even with a strong non-native accent. I know people with mediocre to bad command on English who achieved scores of over 100 on the online test. There is no reason to cheat the system.
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by pkd 10y ago
Yeah, no. I guess yes, if you consider any implementation of a far reaching policy in a democracy to be fascist. I have thought a lot about this. And I think that the western media seems have a genetic dislike for popular leaders. I guess t
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by pkd 10y ago
I am frankly shocked by the reaction to this on HN. It seems like I am in the Breitbart forums. If you think Breitbart is a news organisation, then you have either never read any of their articles or are kidding yourself. It is a propaganda
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by pkd 10y ago
JEdit? Any IDE by IntelliJ? These are not JavaFX (its fairly new), but you asked for Java.
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by pkd 10y ago
2 Days: $2 1 Week: $3 1 Month: $10 6 Months: $50 From https://dply.co/help/faq
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by pkd 10y ago
Ah, this again. The group featured in the article is an extremely small fringe group. Even if I were an outspoken Hindu Nationalist, I would not identify with these crazies. These are at most as numerous as Nazi sympathizers in the US. The
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Iteration in One Language and Then All the Others(eev.ee)
2 points by pkd 10y ago|1 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
You posted the link to the README, which is different from the link to the repo itself. Since these two aren't really duplicates, I don't think it's a fault of HN's algorithm.
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by pkd 10y ago
This is walking distance from my place, which is a very commercial area of the city. Trump Tower is one of many high rise buildings in this area and I don't think people who already can't afford a downpayment on their real estate
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by pkd 10y ago
The RAM thing is a myth. LinusTechTips, the YouTube channel, even did their own survey about it and the results are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZBbgfEZf0
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by pkd 10y ago
I personally feel that 80% of the people complain about Unity because of the default color scheme. Switch it with some shade of nice blue and everybody likes it.
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by pkd 10y ago
Unless you are using vertical monitors, it makes sense to preserve the more premium vertical screen space by not placing the launcher there. Anyway you can move it to the bottom now since 16.04. Ubuntu offers a lot of niceties, and the DE i
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by pkd 10y ago
Yeah, I love how sophisticated Gimp and Inkscape are for open source projects, but they don't even touch Adobe when it comes to the finesse and features, sadly. I keep Windows on dual boot just so that I can use Illustrator on the odd
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by pkd 10y ago
You can use alt + ~ to switch between open windows of the same application. Long pressing the super(windows) key shows more shortcuts.
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by pkd 10y ago
Fun fact about Octave. If you start Octave and run the `fact` command, it emits random jokes about Richard Stallman. Here is one: > There is no chin under Richard Stallman' beard. There's only another beard. Recursively.
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Getting on Without Google(drewdevault.com)
4 points by pkd 10y ago|1 comments
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by pkd 10y ago
That's a great body of work!
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by pkd 10y ago
Found it through Spacemacs. Totally love it. Even if it were to be your most used creation, it totally deserves it.

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